So I was reading an NBC article and they said that in a survey done by Lego, because apparently
that's where NBC gets their data from, Lego, one-third of all kids between 8 and 12 years old want to be
YouTubers. In today's video, we'll be looking at how much money a YouTube channel actually does or
doesn't make, specifically one that started the year with 5,000 subscribers and ended the year
with 10,000 subscribers, and more specifically, a motovlog channel. I do motorcycle stuff,
I'm Adrian from YouMotorcycle. I make videos for people who want to learn about all things
related to motorcycling. I'm going to be breaking down what my channel made last year. We're going
to be looking at the dollars per hour because these videos do take some time. It takes me about
six hours on average for a video, and minimum wage where I live right now is around $11.37
US. We'll see how many months of the year I'm actually making more than minimum wage or less.
In January, I made $136 bucks over 43,000 views. I made four videos in January, so I made less than
six dollars per hour or half of minimum wage. But I'm not too worried about that just because
I know every single year January is always my worst month. Things will get better. February
saw less views in January, but somehow I made more money, whatever that's about. I made $152 bucks,
but I made five videos, so again works out to less than half of minimum wage. I remember I spent so
much time making this one video on the real first motorcycle ever because it doesn't get the credit
deserves. We get the credit to the wrong people, and I thought people are gonna blow their minds
when they realize that we've been crediting their first motorcycle wrong this whole time, and nobody
watched it. And the people who did watch it didn't care, and that's what being a YouTuber really is
like in a nutshell. You think boom, this is it, and nobody cares, and other times you're
just like whatever, you put it out there and it explodes, and I don't know what, I don't know.
March views went up around 50% to 64,000, and I doubled my dollars to $313 bucks. I
made five new videos, including one about a flashing brake light that honestly I put one
of these on every motorcycle and scooter that I take out. I honestly recommend you at least
check out the video if not also buy that little light bulb because it could potentially save you
from being rear-ended. I believe in it. I am buying to it myself, so there you go. April,
I made $343 bucks, and I put out four videos, and I made $14 an hour. I think it was also
my first time gaining over 500 new subscribers in a single month, which was a really amazing
feeling. So thank you very much for that. I appreciate the heck out of you guys.
Things kept going up in May. 84,000 views, 547 new subscribers, $405,
and that month I put out a video on how to properly jump start a motorcycle from a car
without damaging your motorcycle's electrical or wiring harness. If you are not a hundred percent
certain that you know how to do this without damaging your motorcycle or possibly damaging the
motorcycle of the person you're trying to help, please take a minute and just review that video,
and it'll save you somewhere down the road. June, I got 83,000 views, 523 new subscribers,
and I announced I was going on a 2,000-kilometer motorcycle road trip that I was super stoked for,
but I would find out later nobody cared about. Oh man! I also put out a 20-minute monster review
in June where I reviewed my Harley-Davidson V-Rod Night Rod. In that 20 minutes, I listed, I think,
21 Pros to the bike and 19 cons. And I wish that more reviews on YouTube were like that.
Not to toot my own horn, but there are a lot of motorcycle reviews that are like six minutes,
and it's really fluffy. It's like, "Oh yeah, it looks nice. Oh yeah, the brakes are nice."
And the motovloggers don't always give you a lot of detail. And I try to really make things kind
of cutesy and not be negative at all because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. And like
[ __ ], that you're gonna do the most benefit for people if you can find a way to deliver 40 points
of knowledge in 20 minutes. People are going to gain so much value from that video, and that
video, to this date, has done ridiculously well. I wish more reviews were like that. Yeah, anyway.
July was very similar in views and subscriber growth, but I only made 386 bucks. This time,
I put out content for my trip that I was really excited to share,
and I thought that was gonna be like a whole new chapter for the channel, and you guys
pretty much told me that you didn't give a [ __ ] about that. So, uh, after three videos,
I just said screw it. Nobody's watching these things. Nobody cares. I'm gonna stop making those.
It was supposed to be a nine-episode series. I stopped it at three because sometimes you just
gotta listen to the people, man. So, you guys voted with your views, and uh, I respect that.
By August, uh, yeah, I gave up my travel series, went back to my normal content, and as a result,
my views, subscribers, and revenues all went back up because when you stop doing what you want to
do and you start doing what the people want, you get good results. 85,000 views, 573 subscribers,
$409. I made two videos, so the dollars per hour was actually quite good, and I... it's not that I
didn't want to make the videos that I made. I wanted to be creative with the travel videos,
and it wasn't working, so I made other videos I wanted to make instead. All good.
September things started going down. 75,000 views, 425 new subscribers, only 366 bucks,
and I made three videos. October, another 70,000 views, 393 subscribers, 343 dollars,
and I made two videos. By November, things had really fallen, though. 58,000 views,
337 new subs, and 298 bucks. Two videos, one of them was another really in-depth review. This
time was on my 2010 Vespa S150. You can have, like, one of these things for a thousand bucks,
U.S. If you're considering adding a second bike or maybe a bike that potentially, you know,
a little shorty can ride on with you, check out that video because these little Vespas, they can
do maybe a lot more than what you thought, and they're super simple, and I... I like mine a lot.
December was even worse in pretty much every which way, except for one, which is, I only
made one video in December. So, technically, this was my best dollars per hour month of
the year. I think I didn't really try that hard because I knew December, everyone's on holidays,
everyone's got enough stuff running around to do. I just didn't want to deal with all
that. And I guess now we just got to talk about what my totals were for the year. In 2022, I got
5,000 new subscribers compared to 2,700 in 2021, so I saw like an 85% increase, which is amazing,
it's awesome. 817,000 views compared to 472, so I was up 73%. $3,800 strictly from YouTube (I'll
explain in a second), versus 2,100 from YouTube the year before. Now, that's not my total income.
If you watch some of my oil change videos, I'll say, "you know, here's the oil I use,
here's a filter I use, here's the torque wrench I use, here's the oil filter wrench I used." If
you buy any of that stuff, I get a four percent commission off of whatever you buy from Amazon
through my links. This does add up to a few thousand dollars at the end of the year. The
problem is, I don't know how much that comes from YouTube or how much that comes from my website,
youmotorcycle.com. Because I put the same affiliate links on emotorcycle.com as I do on YouTube,
and when people buy stuff, I don't know if they're buying because they came from
youmotorcycle.com or if they're buying because they came from youtube.com/youmotorcycle.
There are a bunch of costs that I haven't talked about either. So, for example, the camera I'm
talking to you on and the microphone, that's like 500 bucks right there. I also have my GoPro,
which is another couple hundred bucks, the lights, tripods, memory cards, all that stuff,
it all adds up. What I really want to know, and this is the part where I want to ask you guys,
so yeah, like I did make $3,800 for the year, but when I did the math on that,
234 hours of work. If you have a 40 hour workweek, that's six weeks of full-time work to make about
$3,800 bucks US. So my question is to you, if your boss said to you, "you don't have any more of your
normal responsibilities. You're also not going to get your salary for the next six weeks. You're
gonna just make YouTube videos. And before you go back to your normal job and your normal pay,
I'm just going to write you a check for $3,800." Would you take six weeks of working for $3,800
bucks, or would you be like, "no, I actually need to make a living and put more serious
money on the table"? Please let me know in the comments uh what you guys think,
just about youtubing, motovlogging, making content, whether it pays you or not.
I'd love to hear what your thoughts are. Again, my name is Adrian, I make videos for people who
want to learn about all things motorcycle. If you're into that, hit the Subscribe
button. Thank you so much for watching, as always, ride safe but have fun, peace.